The closer he got to that house, the more obvious the smell became, and when he walked to the door, Pei Yungui was almost fainted by the monstrous stench.

She knocked on the door with her fingers, and after three sounds, she stood in front of the door and waited.

There was no response from inside the house.

Pei Yungui frowned and knocked again.

This time there was still no sound.

Pei Yungui's face changed.

The taste is so strong, and I haven't seen anyone for a long time.

The host's family shouldn't be critically ill!

Thinking of this, Pei Yungui didn't care about asking anything, saving people was more important.

She banged on the door vigorously and shouted anxiously, "Is there anyone inside, someone is bothering to respond."

After a few moments, until the dull sound of the door knocked out of the air, there was still no response.

The person should have fallen into a coma, and if he is not sent to the hospital for treatment, he is afraid that there will be more than one luck.

Pei Yungui couldn't and gave up calling the door.

I caught a glimpse of a window next to it that had a slit open.

That's where the stench comes from.

Pei Yungui didn't think much about it, and hurriedly opened the window and climbed in.

The room was pitch black, and the light from the windows allowed for a clear view of the scene.

Tables, chairs, and furniture were in disarray, falling to the ground.

The floor and walls, east and west, were occupied by filth/filth, and the stench rushed out and penetrated into the nostrils, almost suffocating.

Although the outer room was chaotic, there was no one in sight.

The patient should lie in the bedroom.

Pei Yungui took a light breath and walked towards the inner room.

The door of the inner room was hidden, leaving only a small crack one finger wide, and when you looked through the small crack, it was still pitch black, but the smell was even stronger.

"Is anyone there?"

Pei Yungui knocked on the door and asked.

In response to her, there was still a deathly silence.

Standing in front of the door of the inner room and shouting, no one answered, presumably the owner really fainted.

Pei Yungui let out a breath of turbid air and slammed the door open.

The barrier was lost, and the smell was more obvious, but it also made Pei Yungui smell more thoroughly.

It's not just the smell of dirt.

Her face turned pale.

She cleaned the spittoon in the hospital for half a month, and the smell of vomit and excrement had long been accustomed.

In addition to the sour smell of filth/filth, this smell is mixed with another taste.

It's the rotten smell of rotten meat!

The owner of the room, who had not responded for a long time, was not unconscious.

But...... He's dead!

As if to confirm Pei Yungui's thoughts, she raised her eyes and suddenly caught a glimpse of a human head hanging from the edge of the bed.

The head was tilted up, and the pale face happened to be facing the direction of Pei Yungui, and the eyes that had not yet closed seemed to be looking directly at her.

The corners of the man's eyes were yellow, his dark pupils dilated slightly, and he was blank and stiff.

It was a pair of dead man's eyes.

Pei Yungui was suddenly taken aback, his face changed suddenly, his scalp was numb, and his heart was beating fast, as if he was about to fly out of his chest.

She trembled and took a half step back, her thin white fingers pinching the door frame in a hurry.

Although after coming here, I often deal with corpses, but under the premise of being unprepared, it is the first time that I have been stared at like this by a corpse.

What's more, this room is dark and quiet, and the sudden appearance of a rotting corpse is really scary.

However, it is ...... Don't be so afraid.

Pei Yungui forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and comforted himself: "It's just a poor person who died of illness, there's nothing to be afraid of, I've been here for so long, I've seen more people who have died of illness, and it's not bad for this one."

Thinking like this, the fear was dispelled a little.

Pei Yungui stroked his chest and stepped forward boldly, intending to investigate the situation of the deceased.

I only took two steps, but suddenly I felt the back of my neck

His face was hit hard, and his eyes went black, and he fell to the ground, not knowing anything.

***

Dongshi Medical Center, consultation room.

Li Qingyuan had already waited for this to come and wait for everyone to come before starting today's discussion.

"In today's deliberations, everyone can speak freely, and say whatever comes to mind, and there is no need to be restrained." Li Qingyuan said.

Because of the objections raised mainly by Pei Jian, Pei Jian took the lead in saying: "This plague disease, the patient vomits, diarrhea, and cold hands and feet, it is a cold disease. However, the number of relapses in the past few days is unknown, and it is very different from the disease of wind and cold, and the ministers and others speculate that the plague is not wind cold."

Imperial Physician Liu nodded and said, "The distinctive feature of the wind chill is cough, but among all the patients rescued in the past half month, no cough has been found."

This also confirmed Pei Jian's guess.

They started in the wrong direction.

Li Qingyuan pondered for a moment and said slowly, "Is there a record in the medical book?"

Doctor Fang shook his head, "This disease is weird, and there is no similar record in the medical book."

"According to Imperial Physician Liu, among the patients you have treated in the past half a month, there is no cough?" Gu Rin suddenly spoke.

Discussing the matter of curing diseases was not Gu Rin's specialty, so this time, he sat at the back and gave up the position in the first row to the imperial doctor.

As soon as he spoke from the back row, he caught everyone's attention.

Imperial Physician Liu nodded and said, "That's true, what does General Gu have in mind?"

He looked at Gu Rin with a contempt in his eyes that he hadn't even noticed.

Gu Rin has the ability to lead troops to fight, but the principle of medicine is a layman.

Could it be that he can see it more thoroughly than him, the imperial doctor?

Gu Rin sat up slightly straight, his tall torso carrying coercion.

He asked, "As far as I know, cough is the most contagious because the breath exhaled by people talking and talking is easily inhaled by the other person, and ordinary people inhale the breath of the sick person and enter the lungs, causing infection. Am I right?"

Pei Jian's eyes showed appreciation and said, "The general is wise."

Consistent with what he had originally thought.

Gu Rin continued, "However, people infected with the plague do not have coughs, so the patients are not infected with the lungs, not the lungs, what kind of place would it be?"

Pei Jianjian engraved: "Vomiting and diarrhea are gastrointestinal diseases."

"Gastrointestinal disease?" Imperial Physician Liu touched his beard and questioned, "Could it be that in one day, everyone eats bad stomachs? It's kind of."

Pei Jian nodded, "This is the old man's doubts, the cause of the people in You County should be from the stomach, which is a manifestation of gastrointestinal damage, and the only thing that can damage the stomach and intestines can be water and food, the old man doesn't know how the food in You County was before the outbreak of the plague, but after the plague, the food we provide is normal, otherwise more than the people will be sick."

"What does Imperial Physician Pei mean is that there is a problem with the water and food in You County?" Mrs. Liu said.

"Nope." Li Qingyuan slowly spoke, "It's not the food problem, it should only be the water quality problem."

You County is a special town in the northwest border, which is dry and cold, and there is no grass, but You County has broken the routine and gained a unique advantage.

That's the abundance of rivers.

This is one of the reasons why Yuxian is more prosperous than other towns.

The lives of the people are closely related to water.

Eating and drinking are inseparable from these three rivers.

If the previous guess was correct, it is most likely that there is something wrong with the water quality.

When the people ate food made of dirty water, they got this kind of gastrointestinal disease.

"There are three rivers in Youxian County." Gu Rin said: "One of them is the outermost Lingshui, which originates from the Tianshan Mountains and connects the medical halls of the east, west, south and north cities, and our food and clothing all originate from it."

"Lingshui must be fine." Pei Jiandao: "We almost all live in this area, and we use water from Lingshui, so we are not sick, so it is not the source.

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Gu Rin nodded and continued: "The second and two are the water sources that the locals spontaneously excavated, namely Weixi and Qiaoshui, which run through the east, west, north and south, and are the main sources of water for the people in Youxian Town, and the problem is likely to appear in these two rivers."

To prove the truth of this matter, it is only necessary to investigate the residence of the person who has recently become ill.

This matter could not be delayed, and Li Qingyuan immediately ordered to go down and send people to investigate the residences of all the sick people.

Gu Rin had already arrived at the confluence of the Qiaoshui River of the Weixi River.

The willows on the riverside are still around, the scenery is charming, and the blue waves in the river are rippling, and the bottom is crystal clear.

These two rivers, which look normal and completely unreminiscent, are the culprits of the epidemic in Youxian County.

"General, do you see anything unusual?" Qiu Ling squatted down beside Pei Yungui, seemingly asking about business, but in fact, his eyes were looking straight at him, with some resentment in his eyes.

She has been with Gu Rin for so long, but Gu Rin's piece of ice can't be warmed up.

Gu Rin didn't answer, took out a kettle from his arms, filled a pot of water into it, and prepared to send it to the imperial doctor for poison testing.

Qiu Ling suddenly blocked Gu Rin's way with his crossed arms.

Gu Rin frowned, and said coldly, "Miss Qiu Ling, please get out of the way."

"Is the General really going to avoid me all the time?" Qiu Ling raised his eyes to look at Gu Rin and asked aggressively.

Gu Rin said lightly, "I've said it many times, I don't like you."

Qiu Ling lowered his head, and when he spoke again, his voice was a little choked, "But I am really pleased with the general, I heard that the general has never taken a concubine, why don't you take me into the Gu Mansion?"

Gu Rin brushed Qiu Ling's hand away, passed by her, and said in a deep voice, "Isn't it better that you have been freed from the slave rank, you don't have to rely on others anymore, and do what you want to do?"

"What I want to do......" Qiu Ling smiled bitterly, "What I want to do is to be with you, doesn't the general understand?"

"Persuade the girl to give up as soon as possible." He said coldly: "In Gu's life, he only marries wives and does not take concubines. I'll go first, if you figure it out one day, and hope to go out of You County, you can still tell me that the house in Yangzhou is kept by Gu for the girl."

When the words fell, Gu Rin stepped up and wanted to leave.

"The person you want to marry is a Yungui girl, right?" Qiu Ling said suddenly.

Gu Rin's figure froze, his expression was still indifferent, but at the bottom of his eyes, there was an undercurrent of emotions, and he was suppressed by him.

"I guessed right." Qiu Ling turned around slowly, staring at the man's tall back, with thousands of grievances hidden in his eyes, "So I didn't guess wrong...... Oh, I should have reacted."

She slowly closed her eyes, letting the warmth of the corners of her eyes run across her cheeks.

In the middle of the night, she heard the man's hoarse voice.

"So what, me and her, it's impossible."